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Alexander Wright & Elsie Nunns ~ Wedding Wednesday
Alexander Wright & Elsie Nunns wedding - 7 June 1917 L > R: ? Nunns, Jack Burgess, Violet Nicholson, Alexander Wright, Elsie (Nunns) Wright, Alice (Cockerham) Nunns, Sam Nunns. A returned...
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My Heritage Pie ~ SNGF
Every Saturday night Randy Seaver sends out a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at Genea-Musings. Usually I miss out because of the time difference, but this week I thought I’d just post a day...
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Alex & Elsie ~ Wordless Wednesday
My great grandparents, Elsie Nunns & Alexander Wright - but who is the baby? Wordless Wednesday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
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The Mystery Baby and the Man in Uniform ~ (Not So) Wordless Wednesday
Last week I posted this photograph of my great grandparents, Elsie Nunns and Alexander Wright. Except when I sent the photo to my mother to see if she knew who the baby was, she replied saying “that’s...
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Alexander Wright ~ Sunday’s Obituary (and a mystery)
How apt that today I am posting my great grandfather’s obituary – on the 55th anniversary of his death.1 Obituary of Alexander Wright, clipping from unidentified publication, 01 Aug 1956 OBITUARY MR....
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I have spent the last four days in West Yorkshire, visiting places that are connected with my great grandmother, Elsie Nunns. She was born in 1896, in Rothwell, which is where I began my search. At...
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National Coal Mining Museum, Yorkshire ~ Follow Friday
My 3 x great grandfather, Henry Nunns, was a coal miner, and his father and brothers worked in the mines as well. One of the highlights of my recent Yorkshire trip was visiting the National Coal Mining...
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West Yorkshire research trip Part 2
Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell, Yorkshire, August 2011 Rothwell’s parish church was built around 1130AD, though it’s thought to be the third such building on the site. It was in this church that my...
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West Yorkshire research trip – Part 4
I posted a photo last week of Rothwell’s market cross – a replica of the medieval one, which originally was close to the current site. I have several census returns where the address is simply “Near...
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The Arrival of my Ancestors ~ Waitangi Day
Today is Waitangi Day in New Zealand. It commemorates the date the Treaty of Waitangi was formally agreed between the Māori tribes of Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Queen of England way back in 1840. For...
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Accentuate the Positive ~ 2016
The last year has been a crazy busy year full of study and work and moving countries. It’s been lovely to look back and see that I actually did manage to cram in some genealogy fun as well. An elusive...
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